“Unless you want to die very fast and very painful, I suggest you stop where you are. What do you want little man?” I sneered.
“You insulted me and injured my person I demand…,” he started.
“You fucking demand? I suggest you start walking away from me as quickly as you can, you insulted one of the oldest mage families in all the world, therefore you insulted me,” I looked straight in his eyes, I could see him shaking, all I had in my eyes was the icy cold calling of death and I wasn’t afraid to use it.
“As I said at the restaurant, pursue this and you won’t last the day out I WILL make sure of that. You are obviously too stupid to realize just who you are dealing with! I am Johnathon Timmins of the European Timmins!” I shouted.
I swear the little man about pissed his pants when I told him who I was, “Leave! While you still can, I see you again and I will destroy you! Don’t think sniffing around Lana’s skirts will save you either!” I turned as he started walking away from me, within a few minutes I felt my power start to return. Damn it! Now he’d fucked up my bad mood! Growling I had to do something more destructive, looking around I saw a series of caves not far away. Thinking a moment I smirked perfect! Flashing out I appeared deep in the cave system erecting a huge barrier I started to blast away at the ceiling and walls of the cave. Ah! This was better wholesale destruction! An hour later I felt Gregor approaching from far off shit! Not now, all I needed right now was his smart ass cracking jokes. Damn I just hope I was far enough underground for neither of us to affect the other.
Stopping almost directly above me, I felt Gregor’s confusion, concentrating I asked him why he was there.
“Why am I here? You really have to ask? After you spanked pretty boys’ ass did you think there’d be no repercussions? Already we’ve had to put all our troops here on alert. Plus the fact that he was telling father that you attacked him without provocation.” I laughed, Vidon would have seen through all of the pretty boy’s lies, plus he could see and hear what Gregor and Lana had seen.
“So why are you here? After seeing yours and Lana’s sights I know he no longer believes him.” I responded.
Sighing Gregor almost cringed, “uh … he and your father want your sight, to clear all points of the conversation.” I started to laugh, so this was their plan, force me to submit to a memory scan, everyone knew father was the only one strongest enough to scan me. As if I trusted him now, there was no telling what he’d try to plant while he was in there.
Gregor thought for a moment I had lost my mind, “You tell your father and thereby my father, that it will be an extremely cold, cold day in hell before I submit myself to a scan. I can extract the memories but that is all, I will not have another mucking around in my head, not while I am alive!”
“I’ll try,” Gregor replied, “But if I know the both of them, they’ll be here within the next two days. Oh yeah, pretty boys’ family is already on the way here, I am sure you’ve heard of him, Lord Pompoff.” Gregor said in disgust, that vampire clan was well known for all the atrocities they had perpetrated over the last three centuries. Thankfully they were small and not many followers survived long.
Laughing even harder it was a fight to stay on my feet Lord Pompoff!? LORD!? Again Gregor must have thought I had lost my mind. “Yes Gregor, I know of the Lewd Lord, as I am sure most of the clans do.”
For a moment I felt Gregor hesitate then the laughter started, so much in fact that I could tell that Gregor was no longer standing a rare thing with him in his vampire form. A moment later Gregor stopped and got serious,
“Johnathon you know that his father could force this, saying that you manipulated the memory. If what happened that night gets out you and I could be finished no matter what the circumstances. Though I don’t think they will do much to you (as if they could) the effects upon me and Lana could go on for a long time. Why can’t we come clean about it?”
Sighing I thought long and hard before I answered, “Because I made a promise that night Gregor, Lana, even as old as she was, was nowhere near ready, plus the fact that her friend put herself on the line like that. No, I will not diminish her memory or sacrifice, she was only human, but she was by far the most noble of us all that night. Lana doesn’t remember no one does, I removed it from all of you, it was hers and Lana’s wishes, you know better than anyone the love I have for Lana, and exactly what I would do for her. This is one thing I cannot do, not any more it is my pain and mine alone to suffer through ’til the sign, not a moment before!”
Hating myself I grabbed Gregor before he could move and again removed all conversation involving that night, one of these days I swear Gregor was going to have a really good scream at me when I installed all the lost memories.
I sent Gregor back to near town, cover story ready in his mind damn it! I hated using my friend as a puppet. I was hoping that this sign she’d given me all those centuries ago happened soon, the way things were going I was very soon to be on the outlaw list. A place no one wanted me to be, considering I could take well over half any clan out with no problem, yeah they wanted me on their good side. Strange thing is though, an awful lot more people were trying to suddenly ‘help’ me now more than ever before, what were they that afraid? No there was something else going on here, I had heard rumblings the last hundred years about a few of the clans afraid of the power that mine now held. I had seen the quick scramblings to garner favor with father then mother. No one had even tried to approach me, yeah they knew better, knowing me I’d probably have eaten them for lunch, (I really couldn’t stand ass kissing, whiney, yes men, a good assistant but not a yes man.)
Withdrawing I had just appeared outside of town when I felt my father calling me, not fucking now! Looking around I walked till I was hidden then appeared in my room, “What!” I yelled as soon as I connected.
“Danm boy! That’s no way to greet your father, nor the leader of your clan.” He started.
“HA! As if I care right now, before you ask I already know you know what my answer was. Don’t even think of it!” I said as I threw a very strong ward up blocking what he’d already sent.
Sighing he started again, “I knew I shouldn’t have sent you over there, but the clan demanded it before you claimed the head of the clan, I….”
“I’ll tell you as I told them last year when my power shot past yours,” I stated, “I do not want the head of the clan, it is yours ’till you die or step down. Since I am your stand in you aren’t too likely to die too soon, so unless this is important then go away and leave me alone!” I was about to close when what he said next froze me to the spot.
“I wish it was that simple, because of the offence I, Vidon, Pompoff,” here he sighed, “plus the entire magical council will be there next week, there is nothing I could do. The little piss-ant already has half the council on his side over laws that I started over 900 years ago. I hope you’re ready son, it won’t be like 200 years ago, when it was just you, Lana, Gregor, and Lady Trina.” I Had turned away at the mention of her name such memories flooding back into my soul and mind. My father never one to miss subtle hints, saw the slight tearing in my eyes as I turned, interesting he thought, let’s hope that this cure isn’t worse than the disease.